June 1, 2013
Thank you to everyone from Skano Elementary School who entered the CORAL REEFS contest. We asked students to do some research and tell us about three animals that live in coral reefs. I enjoyed seeing the choices you made and reading your writing about these animals. This contest was very unusual because of the large number of kindergarteners, both individuals and classes, who entered. This was very exciting work from the kindergarten kids, and you’ll see some of it here in our winning entries.
As promised, we have selected two winners of this contest, and both will receive an autographed copy of Seymour Simon’s newest book, CORAL REEFS. We chose the winners at random, using a very cool random number generator website called Random.org.
Are you ready? Here are the winners of Seymour Simon’s CORAL REEFS contest!
Individual Winner: Benny, 6 years old, from Mrs. Russo’s kindergarten class. Benny wrote:
1. coral looks like a plant but is an animal
2. sharks have sharp teeth
3. lobster eyes are on stalks
Classroom Winner: Mrs. Benkoski’s Kindergarten Class. They wrote:
Sharks are cool and some live in coral reefs. Sand tiger sharks can be found there, but they sometimes hide in the sand. Squids have 10 arms and also live in coral reefs. Lots of sea urchins live on coral reefs. They have many poisonous spines. They can puff these out at things that swim by. It was really fun learning about coral reefs and we love your new book!
Congratulations to everyone who entered. Be on the lookout for another blog post, because we enjoyed the work you did for this contest so much, we are going to publish some of your writing for everyone to read.
Posted by: Seymour Simon
